Valve has put out an update for Dota 2 and there's some major changes coming, along with another new hero set to enter the fold.
As part of the 2022 Battle Pass: Part II update Valve announced that NVIDIA Reflex support has been added, and they've said that this is the last major update that will have OpenGL support as everyone will need to be using Vulkan on Linux after that. OpenGL removal was previously announced back in 2021.
For right now though Valve has added Diretide, their annual event with a new Candyworks game mode. This update also comes with a second Cavern Crawl map and the release of another round of rewards.
As for the new hero, they're named Muerta and they arrive in early 2023:
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What else?
Oh, there's also a little sprinkle of Portal with a Cave Johnson (voiced by J. K. Simmons) announcer pack that had its own fun trailer that even pulled in Valve CEO Gabe Newell. Amusingly, Newell calls himself both "G-Money" and "G-Fat" during it.
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Quoting: t3gI’m more surprised that some of you are playing games in 2022 with a 580. I had one years ago but graduated to a 5700 and currently on a 6900XT.
I do game on a ultrawide though so maybe that’s why I appreciate the extra power.
I still play on my R9 Fury, even though it hangs in some games. It was all I could get my hands on in 2018, and while the GPU shortage has eased a bit, manufacturer prices are still crazy. I'll monitor the second hand market over the next months for a 580 or something similar.
Quoting: EikeI don't think there's a (direct) user benefit, you could always use Vulkan by choice. But the developers benefit, not having to care for both APIs, might help them concentrate on other user benefits.
They're going to loose a lot of players, since many still use older GPUs with barely supported Vulkan or with no support at all (since devs don't care).
Quoting: t3gI’m more surprised that some of you are playing games in 2022 with a 580. I had one years ago but graduated to a 5700 and currently on a 6900XT.*stares at my rx 570 and ultrawide setup*
I do game on a ultrawide though so maybe that’s why I appreciate the extra power.
Quoting: StarterX4Quoting: EikeI don't think there's a (direct) user benefit, you could always use Vulkan by choice. But the developers benefit, not having to care for both APIs, might help them concentrate on other user benefits.
They're going to loose a lot of players, since many still use older GPUs with barely supported Vulkan or with no support at all (since devs don't care).
I'm sure they've got the exact numbers of people using older hardware. Last weekend I tried to play dota 2 on intel hd 4000 (i7 3rd gen). It was somehow playable on OpenGL (40-60fps on lowest settings) and completely unplayable on Vulkan (20 fps).
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